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Beginner: Partitioning disks for a one user enviroment
I have 2 hard disks on my machine, one which is 1.2 GB the other is 8.2 GB. I already have a partition of 600 MB for Windows 98 on the main disk and a 4 GB partition for Windows 98 on the second disk.
For Red Hat Linux 6.1 I have the following partitions:
5 MB boot partition on the main disk
100 MB swap partition on the main disk
505 MB home partition on the main disk
2202 GB usr partition on the second disk
2000 GB root partition on the second disk
Any comments? Does this seem logical for a one user environment? How would I go about re-partitioning if I messed it up?
For Red Hat Linux 6.1 I have the following partitions:
5 MB boot partition on the main disk
100 MB swap partition on the main disk
505 MB home partition on the main disk
2202 GB usr partition on the second disk
2000 GB root partition on the second disk
Any comments? Does this seem logical for a one user environment? How would I go about re-partitioning if I messed it up?
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Hi boomerang,
if i were you i'd use the 2002MB usr partition for Lotus Notes ( for linux ?)
you can use the usr to keeps your applications and since you have given it the size it is logical to use that.
:) Andrew
if i were you i'd use the 2002MB usr partition for Lotus Notes ( for linux ?)
you can use the usr to keeps your applications and since you have given it the size it is logical to use that.
:) Andrew
You will probabely never use all the space in the root partition. I recommend exchanging home and root. On single user workstation you should reserve approx. 50 Mb for /bin, /lib, /root, /dev and /etc, approx. 200Mb for /var if you are going to use the news and mail spool a lot or install a www proxy. Using your present /home for that, it would still give you 250Mb free playing space for /tmp and /var/tmp. The installation of large package requires that.
You might want to consider creating a second equaly large swap partition on the second disk. If you use both of them with equal priority, it will give you a small performance boost, when the system starts swapping.
You might want to consider creating a second equaly large swap partition on the second disk. If you use both of them with equal priority, it will give you a small performance boost, when the system starts swapping.
No need to exchange /home and /. He has no /opt partition, and lots of s/w installs in /opt. [Star Office, from the rpm].
You will probabely never use all the space in the root partition. I recommend exchanging home and root. On single user workstation you should reserve approx. 50 Mb for /bin, /lib, /root, /dev and /etc, approx. 200Mb for /var if you are going to use the news and mail spool a lot or install a www proxy. Using your present /home for that, it would still give you 250Mb free playing space for /tmp and /var/tmp. The installation of large package requires that.
You might want to consider creating a second equaly large swap partition on the second disk. If you use both of them with equal priority, it will give you a small performance boost, when the system starts swapping.
You might want to consider creating a second equaly large swap partition on the second disk. If you use both of them with equal priority, it will give you a small performance boost, when the system starts swapping.
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Yes I meant MB not GB... ;-)